Why is there no Amiga thread?

[GodofHardcore]

Looks like an old school Mac

[WolverineDK]

Looks like an old school Mac

Try searching Amiga 500, 500+, 2000 and so forth. Or just search for the Amiga computer on wikipedia.

[Shakey_Jake33]

Looks like an old school Mac

The Amiga 1200 is generally regarded as the Amiga of choice. Released in 1992, it was an enhanced 32-bit variant intended to be competition to rise of consoles, as well as the PC. It was successful in it's own way, but too little too late to compete with the MegaDrive and Snes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1200

The Amiga still exists in some form, albeit as a PowerPC-based piece of hardware with no relation to the original hardware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000

[HEX1GON]

Nor are computers but there is a computer support forum :P

Computer support, some devkits use PCs.. So It's kinda linked in a way.

[H360]

Seems as if the so called not needed Amiga thread is popular :-P

I do not understand why the Amiga failed and did not take off. MS-DOS sucks compared to what it could do at the time...

[Hellcat]

I really want an Amiga for Frontier Elite II :|

Got a small stash of A1200s left from our recent "rescue mission"....

Ohhh, the good ol' A1000.... <3

After a long time of wanting one I finally own one my own :D Even still in original packaging \o/


My "main use" Amiga is a tuned up A1200 with lots of powerups and addons built into a tower case and my original Amiga (the one I bought new back in '93) with a 030/50 accel. board.

They all still work like a charm and are great fun using and playing the good ol' games on them.


// EDIT
I'd be all for an Amiga (or better a more generic Commodore) section here and would totally post there :D

[alecjahn]

What about the CD32?

And don't say "It's just a computer in a different box". Because really, that's what all consoles are. Especially the Xbox, a damned PIII with a GeForce!

We also regularly mention/cover the x68000 and PC-98!

[H360]

the Xbox, a damned PIII with a GeForce!

:lol: haha, true...

I'd be all for an Amiga (or better a more generic Commodore) section here and would totally post there :D

WE NEED AN AMIGA THREAD ASSEMbler :crying:

[Shakey_Jake33]

Whilst we're all talking about the Amiga, I always felt the Amiga port of WipEout 2097 looked very impressive. Admittedly it's running on a souped-up machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OkvNlBXgE

(Shame about the music on the video - why do people replace the music rather than keeping the game sound?!)

[Calpis]

Maybe if CD32 games weren't just A1200 games played with a controller.

There are still consoles unrepresented by forums, albeit pretty bad ones. Is it really necessary to include a computer? Do we really need any more forums? I think there are too many as-is to check. Maybe the console forums should be merged by brand (instead of 3 Sega forums, 2 Microsoft), then computer gaming should have a forum to catch C64/PC/MSX/PC-98/Amiga/X68000/FM Towns etc.

[Bad_Ad84]

CD32 was still a console though, regardless of what games it was playing.

Agree on the layout change :)

[H360]

Maybe the console forums should be merged by brand (instead of 3 Sega forums, 2 Microsoft), then computer gaming should have a forum to catch C64/PC/MSX/PC-98/Amiga/X68000/FM Towns etc.

Sub forums should be categorised.


EG:

Sony > PlayStation 1
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PSP
Vita
...

Commodore > Amiga 500
Amiga 1000
...

Microsoft > Xbox
Xbox 360
...

Maybe even more sub categories?

Sony > PlayStation 1 > Games, Hacks and Mods and a Development topic
PlayStation 2 > Games, Hacks and Mods and a Development topic

Should be easy for ASSEMbler to do. Will just take a long time :-P
Be sure to back it up before you touch it though...


Apart from that,

I like the music on the Amiga. Then again, I think everyone does.

Crystal Hammer,
PHENOMENS's MusicDream I and II,
Captive (intro),
Jester - Elysium,
Arcane,
Elfmania Waterfall...

[Hellcat]

I don't think we need THAT much subforums/-sections.

A general Amiga (or as said, even more general Commodore) one would totally suffice - doubt there is THAT much talk that we'd need subforums for each model ;)


About the WipeOut 2097 port: yeah, it's pretty amazing, really try to get it running on my "bigrig" again....

[LeGIt]

More subcategories = more people not posting in correct category = more headache for mods having to move everything and then when there is an ambiguous post eugh. Also some subforums may be more popular than others which makes an active forum look dead. With that said I'm all for more subforums, but in reality without 100 moderators it is not very practical for people to manage without making it a full time job - for example now this thread is more of a site request instead of an off topic pondering so I have to move it.

Even though Amiga was mostly shit (many of the good games were multiplatform anyway) there is nothing stopping anyone talking about Amiga in this thread or wherever it is relevant, but as other people have stated such discussions can be better had elsewhere.

[Tatsujin]

Lol, just open a thread. Why ask for it first? :lol:

[mooseblaster]

Even though Amiga was mostly shit (many of the good games were multiplatform anyway)

You're officially off my Christmas card list! :P It's all right, I wouldn't expect a heathen such as yourself to understand how godly the Amiga was in the late 80s and early 90s.

Despite what Atari & PC obsessives say, for a long period of time it blew the socks off other home machines. Many of the games have maintained their playability value to this day and tended to be superior in both graphics, sound and framerate. The 1985 technology in the systems was revolutionary, outpacing everyone. However, when Commodore died in 1994 the console market was starting to stifle them, and by the late 1990s PCs had finally caught up. The companies that purchased Amiga didn't really do much in terms of development, instead focusing on classic machines and killing themselves before getting an opportunity to do something exciting with the platform.

If Amiga had the funding and development pace, especially during the critical computer boom years of the late 90s, I could easily imagine Amiga being where Apple is now - you look at the prototypes they were working on and can see the potential. Instead, it languishes forgotten with only diehard fans and TV stations keeping it alive.

The CD32 was DOA in part due to the death of Commodore, as well as several poor ports that didn't make the most of CD technology (of course, until the late 90s, who did?) and a few bad decisions. If Commodore hadn't died, who knows where we could have been now?

I would say 'yes, I'd like to see a Commodore section', but probably not endless sub-categories for the individual systems - there just aren't enough interesting obscure or rare things in Commodore's universe to make that much work.

[H360]

Even though Amiga was mostly shit

lolwat?

[LeGIt]

lol mooseblaster my first machine was a Commodore 64 + tape deck and I moved onto having the use of an Amiga before getting into consoles and IMO Amiga is only interesting from a technical perspective. It did have good games but they were ported elsewhere which left the software library as nothing special. Most of the games were forgettable, same for any system I guess but other systems have a better good to bad game ratio ;)

[Shakey_Jake33]

From a pure gaming perspective, the Amiga was unlucky to have launched when consoles finally started gaining real traction as technical powerhouses (relatively speaking), not to mention the rise of Japanese developed titles in the west.

[Bad_Ad84]

The Amiga had great games imo.

Often having the best of all the ports to other systems.